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In my experience, community organizers, activists and entry-level employees of community-based organizations age like dogs. I’ve been all three, and I feel like a modern-day Methuselah just five short years later. In my time here, I’ve shared in the joy of significant policy wins. I’ve marveled at the absurdity of the inequity in our community....
Watch: A live chat with current and formerly homeless ‘In Your Backyard’ columnists
Six months after our first ‘In Your Backyard’ column was published, the country and San Jose are in turmoil. As the pandemic and homelessness crises converge, it has become clear a lot more people are a lot more vulnerable than we thought. The columns we published from people who have faced homelessness and prevailed have...